BIB_ID
415821
Accession number
MA 1848.86
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not identified, circa 1812 January 9.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.5 x 21 cm
Notes
The letter is undated. In the Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Griggs offers January 9, 1812 as an approximate date, based on the reference to Spencer Perceval's speech. See the published edition of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Signed with initials.
This collection, MA 1848, is comprised of 92 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, written between 1794 and 1819. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1848.1-92).
This letter is from the Joanna Langlais Collection, a large collection of letters written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients. The collection has been divided into subsets, based primarily on Coleridge's addressees, and these sub-collections have been cataloged as MA 1848-1857.
Signed with initials.
This collection, MA 1848, is comprised of 92 letters from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Robert Southey, written between 1794 and 1819. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 1848.1-92).
This letter is from the Joanna Langlais Collection, a large collection of letters written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients. The collection has been divided into subsets, based primarily on Coleridge's addressees, and these sub-collections have been cataloged as MA 1848-1857.
Provenance
Purchased from Joanna Langlais in 1957 as a gift of the Fellows, with the special assistance of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, Mr. Homer D. Crotty, Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde, Mr. Robert H. Taylor and Mrs. Landon K. Thorne. Formerly in the possession of Ernest Hartley Coleridge and Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts, Baron Latymer.
Summary
Concerning a speech by Samuel Whitbread and a cutting reply by Spencer Perceval, quoting Pope's Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, on the subject of the war against France; saying that when he writes about this, responding to a politician described elliptically as "my Lord Futurum Post, Knight of the vile Grin -- or (perhaps as being the fillet or broad bottom of one of John Bull's Calves, which he has kept for far too long, and is now in a state of complete mortification, even to Gangrene) Green Veal, full of maggots, & like his own Spanish Cause, dead, yet all alive o'" (possibly a reference to Lord Grenville), that Southey should quote certain lines from Francesco Berni's recasting of Boiardo's poem Orlando Innamorato; saying that the lines are Berni's own and giving the stanza in Italian.
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